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Gravity from the ground up

Christine Sutton reviews in 2004 Gravity from the ground up.

Computing at CERN: the mainframe era

Chris Jones takes a look back at the heyday of the computer mainframe through a selection of "memory bytes".

Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts

Now a standard reference for many undergraduate and more advanced courses, this book is a uniform presentation of nuclear and particle physics split into "Analysis" and "Synthesis" sections.

The Theory of Complex Angular Momenta: Gribov Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Published as part of the series of Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, this is an English translation of the lectures given by Gribov in 1969, when the physics of high-energy hadron interact...

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Peggie Rimmer reviews in 2004 Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma.

Invitation to Contemporary Physics

This is a completely revised second edition of a book that presents 10 of the most important areas of modern physics.

Roberto Salmeron Festschrift: A Master and A Friend

Emanuele Quercigh reviews in 2004 Roberto Salmeron Festschrift: A Master and A Friend.

Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium

Ben Allanach reviews in 2004 Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium.

In the tracks of the bubble chamber

Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.